Mable C. Boone — 82, died Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, at Montgomery Place in Independence. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Penwell-Gabel Webb & Rodrick Chapel Funeral Home in Independence. Cremation will follow the service. Visitation will be held from noon to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with family present from 6 to 8. A memorial service will be held in Oxford at a later date.

Ervin Stepp — 88, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Baptist DeSoto Hospital in Southaven. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Waller Funeral Home Chapel in Oxford. Burial will follow in Yellow Leaf Cemetery in Oxford. A visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Hayden Murray “Red” Vines — 82, died Tuesday at Select Specialty Hospital in Gulfport. Arrangements are incomplete with Waller Funeral Home in Oxford.

John E. Watson — died Tuesday in West Point. Arrangements are incomplete with Seven Oaks Funeral Home in Water Valley.